Martin Shkreli (aka PalliBro) buys Palliative Care
April 1, 2016
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) and Alex Smith (@AlexSmithMD) In other merger and acquisition news today, palliative care was bought today…
GeriPal acquired by Pallimed
April 1, 2016
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD, and Eric Widera, @EWidera We know this will come as a surprise to many of our…
Chronic Cancer versus Non-Cancer Pain: A Distinction without a Difference?
March 3, 2016
Eric Widera, MD (@ewidera) In 1824, Jeremy Bentham published the “Book of Fallacies” in which he criticized fifty arguments used…
I’ll Have What She’s Having: Goldilocks and the Hospice Benefit
February 25, 2016
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) Two reports came out last week that can easily lead one to opposite conclusions about the…
The Opioids Issue: Morphine versus All Comers
February 3, 2016
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) Next year marks morphine’s 200th anniversary as an analgesic (while it was discovered in 1804, it…
VitalTalk: Mastering Serious Illness Communication
January 29, 2016
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) It was with some hesitancy I decided last year to take the VitalTalk Faculty Development course.…
When Breath Becomes Air: A Review
January 13, 2016
“And with that, the future I had imagined, the one just about to be realized, the culmination of decades of…
Timing of Palliative Care Consultations – Is Earlier Better?
January 6, 2016
Growth in inpatient palliative care over the last decade has been remarkable. A study published this monthshowed that in 1998…
The Evidence for Palliative Care Is Better Than Many Drugs Approved by FDA
October 16, 2015
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) “But one of the most sobering facts is that no current policy or practice designed to…
Drugs and Bugs at the End of Life
October 2, 2015
by: Eric Widera @ewidera The majority of hospitalized patients with advanced cancer are given antibiotics in the last week of life.…